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Bus,tram&Metro Vienna
200 Reviews The service is fast and reliable - there are a number of ticket options and the automated ticket machines are able to deal with a number of languages apart from German. The tickets seem fairly cheap;...
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Trains Salzburg
23 Reviews Slovene railways offer really good price for travelling from Ljubljana to Salzburg and back. When you travel between the days including Sunday, the price for return ticket is only 47 Euro. I even pay...
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Trains Innsbruck
18 Reviews Intercity Express trains run between Salzburg and Innsbruck in an hourly frequency. In 2009 April the journey used to take about 1 hour 50 minutes We pre-booked the tickets from ÖBB travel portal at...
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by train to Vienna Vienna
60 Reviews The old Südbahnhof is replaced by the future Central Station, until that is finished: Trains to Roma, Milano, Zagreb, Warsaw, Praha, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt and Graz leave only from Wien...
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Getting to Salzburg Salzburg
21 Reviews After getting on to Vienna we availed the ÖBB train service from Vienna (Wien Westbahnhof) to Salzburg (Salzburg Hbf). The journey took around 3 hours (317 km) and costs around 40 EUR per head for...
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Public Transport Innsbruck
15 Reviews As a small town transport in Innsbruck does not cause big problems. Connections with buses and city-trains on main routes are well established, except for late hours (esp after midnight); public...
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Vienna Card & day tickets Vienna
42 Reviews I bought the Vienna Card at the train station for 18.50 Euro. It is valid for 72 hrs for all trams, metro, buses and city trains. The card also brings discount from so many shops and museums; we will...
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To/Around Salzburg
56 Reviews The Salzburg trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network serving Salzburg. Together with the Salzburger Lokalbahn, the system is currently operated by Salzburg AG, which markets it...
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Airport Innsbruck
10 Reviews Find great travel deals from and to Innsbruck. I don't remember anymore where I 've read it , but sky europe - the low cost company - included Innsbruck in his travel destinations, making the capital...
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Excursions FROM Vienna Vienna
29 Reviews Cheapest way from Vienna to Chesky Krumlov (or České Budĕjovice) would be "EURegio Ticket" for € 29, 4 day return via Gmünd - České Velenice. Vienna - Znojmo € 16 Vienna - Mikulov €...
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Horsedrawn Carriages Salzburg
14 Reviews It's a very unique service, but not cheap though: about 35 Euro a person, but you can see a lot and at the same time take pictures. E-mail: office@fiaker-salzburg.at www.fiaker-salzburg.at
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Driving Innsbruck
12 Reviews Driving by car in Innsbruck is not a big problem. The local drivers are, like all Austrians, fairly civilized drivers :-) There are the typical "rush hours" but they never really get bad. You han hire...
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by airplane to Vienna Vienna
69 Reviews From London Heathrow there are around 10 daily flights to Vienna. We booked our seats in the morning flight of British Airways. The journey took 2 hour 15 minutes and the flight was pretty punctual....
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Directions Innsbruck
7 Reviews This tourist map of the city centre. Hahaha, of course I found this little map when I got home, and I didn't have it while I was in Innsbruck :-)) The Altstadt in Innsbruck is very small, and the...
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by car & highway to Vienna Vienna
24 Reviews I discovered this service, as it was booked for me by my Austrian colleagues. They offer an airport collection and pick up service; as well as a sightseeing service. It is fairly cost effective and...
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Up the Mountains Innsbruck
4 Reviews If you fancy climbing a mountain but the physical climb is the problem, you should take a combination of the Hungerburgbahn and cable cars up to the Hafelekar. For EUR 24 return, you will enjoy a...
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Bike & Viennabike Vienna
20 Reviews I rented a Vienna bike yesterday from the city bike and was totally dissapointed . the bikes are extremely uncomfortable, have no gears, hard solid rubber tyres and i would not reccomend these bike to...
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Walking Innsbruck
3 Reviews The train station is very close to the main centre of the town and makes travelling easier to other cities such as Vienna & Salzburg. Travelling by trains...trams and walking is the best moe of...
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Fiaker Vienna
17 Reviews One day they asked Nasrettin Hodja a Turkish denker and joker " What they do the old moon when the new moon appears?" he answered They it cut in pieces and make new stars" Now I ask What they do to...
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parking of a car Vienna
5 Reviews You would indeed have to pay to park. You can purchase parking "passes" in any traffik/tabak shop. They are usually pads with designated times for parking that you leave on your dashboard after...
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zzz- under construction Vienna
3 Reviews From Vienna you can travel east to Slovakia and Hungary or west to Krems and Passau. To get to the boats you need to head to U1 station Vorgartenstrasse and follow the signs to DDSG. You can buy the...
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Of course it's very convenient to travel to Austria by plane, especially by Austrian Airlines - "A smile in the sky"!Our group was privileged to fly from Kharkiv to Vienna directly!We, a group of fifteen orphans from an orphanage in Luhansk region, their head teacher and me as an interpreter, were blessed with good sponsors: Global-2000 organization.
We paid 27 euro for 2, 8 days tickets, very reasonable as once punched they are good for the whole day. There were 3 of us in the city for 5 days and we still had 3 spaces left untouched that we gave away at the end of our trip. The tickets are good for the U-bahn, the buses, and the streetcars....all of which can get you anywhere in the city in little time. Very clean and only crowded during the 5 o'clock hour with everyone going home for the day. I would recommend getting a ticket or pass no matter what as you really need them to get around Vienna and there are checkpoints where you will be fined if you don't have it punched. Also, bend the bottom of the ticket and make sure it punches in the numberd squares. We didn't know this and got lucky that we didn't get our ticket checked the 1st day.
In Austria it is possible to drive with other drivers.If you have detailed plan you can search on this site for drivers.Most people are students. It's a good way for contacting other people.If you want to use this keep this in mind.1. Negotiate a price (about 5,- € per 100km is o.K)2. Talk about a meeting point which it easy to find.3. Appoint the time of meeting and be on time.4. Write down the mobile phone number of the driver.Don't hesitate to contact the drivers all speak English well.If you want to take others with this coule be also possible.Compared with the railway this works out cheaper.
Austria has a well equipped train system.Many trains connect Austria with their neighbours.For Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungarry and Slovenia it is recommandable to buy a ticket only for Austria. Than go out at the border station and buy a ticket for the other country.So you avoid to pay the international price. This is much cheaper.In Austria there many special prices.You should check out which prices suits for you.Perhabs it is recommandable to buy a "Vorteilscard" to get cheaper rates.Sometimes the night trains are much cheaper.On the linked page you can search for connections
the reason i'm posting this tip is because i have seen multiple inquiries regarding train travel and whether or not one needs to purchase tickets in advance. in all the times i have been to europe, i have never once needed to purchase advance tickets. most websites will have you paying almost double for tickets purchased online. all you need to do is have a flexible agenda, arrive at the train station and purchase the ticket. you may have an hour wait. in italy, spain, germany, france, portugal and england, ihave never been denied a ticket because of overbooking. the transportation system is efficient and frequent.remember to validate your ticket upon entering the train.
When you don't have a Eurail,Interrail-ticket etc. yet and intend to go by train from Vienna to Salzburg, Graz, Hallstatt etc - and when you are still under 26 years of age it makes sense to buy a "VORTEILScard <26" !It is a ticket that you may get at any train-station. You pay 19,90 Euros, bring a passport-pic and will first get an interim-paper ticket, later by mail you get something looking like a credit card. Already the paper ticket entitles you to buy and use tickets for half-fare right away!! On the distance Vienna-Salzburg you may save around 19,90 Euros one-way already !! because the ordinary ticket is 39,80. This ticket makes sense for any tourist under 25 years planning to travel by train in Austria!! In case that you have no permanent address in Austria, where they could send the final ticket, give them your hotel address, a friends-address etc. - it will take several...
Many tourists ask themselves : Is it worth to go from Vienna to Salzburg as a day-excursion ? I would say that depends very much on your style of travelling : Day-excursions to Salzburg are possible from Vienna, BUT the train takes about 3 hours one way. In Salzburg most of the sights are in the centre and 6-8 hours should be enough there, unless you care for the real "Sound-of-music-tour" including places outside of Salzburg, like Mondsee with the wedding-chappel of the movie ."Vienna Sightseeing" offers such a fullday-tour by buses each Tuesday and saturday ( and also at thursday&sunday in summer) for 99 Euros a person and you will see some places INside of Salzburg, where that famous Sound of music-movie was made, you will see the Festspielhaus, Peterskirche & cemetery, the birthplace of Mozart, the residence of the bishop and Wolfgangsee & Fuschlsee when driving back.These tours...
Take the S-Bahn from the airport Wien-Schwechat to Vienna, it might not be the fastest way, but it certainly is the cheapest way to do so !All you need is to pay is 2 single one-way tickets, one of them for the "central zone 100" , and the 2nd one for the 2 stations that are OUTside of zone 100, when going to the airport.Many tourists have a dayticket for "Zone100" anyway (Thats the ordinary zone for 24h-tickets, 72h-tickets, weeklytickets and Viennacard) and all that they need in addition is a 2nd single-oneway-ticket in each direction they are going.Very important : cancell both tickets BEFORE you enter the trains !!!!Just to make this clear again: you need to pay 3,60 one way to the airport, if you have a dayticket etc. you just need 1 additional onewayticket and you cancell it before you enter the train. If you dont have a dayticket etc. you buy 2 tickets for "one way" and you put...
Take the Flughafenbus in order to get from the airport Wien Schwechat to the stations Westbahnhof and Wien Meidling or to Morzinplatz/Schwedenplatz, because it is the most convenient transport when you need to reach the stations or the centre of the city.The bus needs just 20 minutes to reach the city and between 05.00a.m. and 11.00p.m. it runs every 30 minutes !The buses are leaving Schwedenplatz at the full hour and 30 minutes later !At the Airport they start always 20 and 50 minutes after the full hour !From there it is a walk of 200 meters to the metro U1 and U4, the trams #1, #2, #21, #N, and most of the night-buses across Vienna will also start at Schwedenplatz.The price for that bus is one way 6 eurostickets are sold by the driverFrom Schwedenplatz/Morzinplatz buses start at every full and half hour------------------------------------------There is a similar bus from the Airport...
Vienna Citybike is a great and also cheap way to explore Vienna !All you have to do is to REGISTER with an Austrian Bancomat-card (ATM-card), the registry is just 2 Euros. Then you can get your bicycle at one of the many bike-stations ( most of them are close to tourist-attractions in the centre ) and give it back at ANY station, so you need NOT go back, where you started, but of course it could happen,that all fixing-places are occupied at the station, where you had planned to give it back, for such a case it is always best to leave some sparetime at the end of this 60 min !You are fully responsible for your bicycle :When your bike is stolen - you have to pay 600 Euros !In case that you rent the bike for more than 1 hour :2 hours = 2 Euros3 hours is 4 Euros4 hours is 8 Eurosevery extra hour is 4 Euro afterwards.The link below is just in German, BUT the way I understand it, it will not...
Hotel Imperial Vienna
6 Reviews and 237 Opinions the hotel imperial is located downtown within walking distance of many of the sights of vienna. this...
Hotel Sacher Salzburg Salzburg
9 Reviews and 310 Opinions I stayed here for a weekend in the spring of 2011. The staff were lovely, the food (especially the...
Best Western Hotel Goldener Adler Innsbruck
5 Reviews and 245 Opinions I really cannot praise this hotel more highly. It stands in the heart of the old town just a few...
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